{"id":8279,"date":"2013-02-18T14:09:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8279"},"modified":"2013-02-18T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T22:10:13","slug":"zarchives-what-we-found-searching-for-the-way-life-should-beby-tonya-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/zarchives-what-we-found-searching-for-the-way-life-should-beby-tonya-morton\/","title":{"rendered":"ZArchives)  &#8216;What We Found, Searching for \u2018The Way Life Should Be\u2019\u2026by Tonya Morton&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT: <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 How is it that some places still seem innocent? With only a few minor changes, we could have been attending the fair held by our neighbor\u2019s parents and grandparents. Of course, no place is fully innocent. It\u2019s true, this area is incredibly unique in its number of small farmers and ranchers\u2014rural people who can still tell you who owned which bank in the 1930s, and who was stingy with loans during the Dust Bowl. It\u2019s true that an older gentleman seated next to Jim at a barbeque recently could describe for us his fear, as a child, watching blankets of dust enveloping his parents\u2019 ranch. And it\u2019s true, of course, that everyone in town knows more about our house than we do. One night, a grizzled man stopped us in the local pizza joint to ask what we thought of the wood stain he\u2019d put on our floors. The kindhearted local judge stopped by one afternoon to say hi and mentioned that, forty years earlier, he had worked on our roof. And, most interestingly, our neighbor\u2019s grandchildren wanted to know if we\u2019d encountered \u201cthe Grey Lady,\u201d a ghost who walks through our attic at night\u2014or so their parents had told them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>TO READ TONYA&#8217;S ARTICLE CLICK THE IMAGE&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/28\/what-we-found-searching-for-the-way-life-should-be\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8280\" alt=\"tonya-galwithhoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tonya-galwithhoe.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tonya-galwithhoe.jpg 424w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tonya-galwithhoe-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT: \u00a0\u00a0 How is it that some places still seem innocent? With only a few minor changes, we could have been attending the fair held by our neighbor\u2019s parents and grandparents. Of course, no place is fully innocent. It\u2019s true, this area is incredibly unique in its number of small farmers and ranchers\u2014rural people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}